Comparison
System Locker vs Auth.GG
Auth.GG covers the basics. Its track record on uptime, pricing transparency, and support is where developers tend to run into trouble.
Auth.GG offers key-based authentication, HWID locking, logs, webhooks, a REST API, and a user portal — the feature checklist most developers start with. The problem is that a licensing provider also has to be present, honest, and reachable. Auth.GG has struggled on all three, and those struggles show up in customer reviews and in its operational history.
At a glance
| What matters | System Locker | Auth.GG |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime history | 99.9% uptime with public monitoring. | A documented outage lasting over a month when its TLS certificate lapsed; ownership has changed hands. |
| Pricing transparency | Published plans from $15 per year, with the limits visible up front. | Two conflicting pricing pages (lifetime vs. monthly) and undisclosed "fair-use" limits that force an upgrade. |
| Public review signal | Support you can reach directly, with documentation and examples. | Trustpilot sits at 2.9/5 — below the platform's own starting baseline. |
| Everyday licensing | Desktop software, Discord automation, resellers, and customer access. | Key authentication and licensing with HWID controls. |
A month-long outage is not a minor inconvenience.
When your licensing server goes down, your paying customers cannot use your software. Auth.GG once went offline for more than a month after its TLS certificate lapsed, with little public explanation. That's the kind of downtime that shows up in sales data, and it destroys the trust you spent so much effort building with your customers. System Locker runs on monitored infrastructure with published uptime, so you and your customers are never left guessing.
Two pricing pages should not say different things.
Auth.GG's pricing page lists a $14.95 lifetime Standard plan with "Unlimited*" applications, users, and logs. Its homepage separately lists Premium at $15/month and Enterprise at $25/month. The asterisk points at an undisclosed fair-use line — once you cross it, you are forced to upgrade or leave. System Locker publishes its plan limits up front, so you can predict what you will pay as you grow instead of finding out by hitting a wall.
When something breaks, you should be able to reach someone.
A licensing issue becomes a customer-support issue within minutes. System Locker gives you documentation to start from, examples to work with, and a team you can reach when the details of your app need a real conversation. Good support doesn't show up in long lists of flashy features — yet it's incredibly important, and Auth.GG's reviews point to major difficulties in this area.
Where Auth.GG may fit.
If you already have a small integration that matches Auth.GG's workflow and you are willing to manage the operational risk yourself, that service can get you to a first release. For a product you intend to support over time, System Locker offers a more dependable place to grow.
Build your next release on something dependable.
Create a free System Locker account, read the examples, and bring us your integration questions before you ship.